Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some Westerners seem inclined to believe that communism with its platform of land reform and intensive mobilization of manpower for industrialization is the most effective approach to economic growth for underdeveloped countries. But I must call their attention to the fact that most of the Asian people are aspiring to political freedom as well as seeking economic development. They are striving to modernize their traditional societies on their own terms. They have become wary of the costly and unhappy results that some Asian countries have had to suffer from the rigorous but ineffective execution of economic programs under the strict...
...smog-control law was enacted, requiring individual counties to take action but also giving the state power to step in if nothing is done at the local level. A long-needed reform centralized the state's fragmented, inefficient purchasing system. Plans are in the works to revamp the scandal-ridden Liquor Control Board, stripping it of its responsibility for narcotics control. In the traditionally delicate area of ethics, some tough new regulations were enacted, including one that bars a legislator and any of his family from doing business with the state...
...charges that the church was "racked by fear" and dominated by authority rather than truth, said McCabe, "seem to be very well founded; the church is quite plainly corrupt." But McCabe added that it was the duty of Catholics to remain in the church and attempt to reform...
...main reliance on a toughening of the A.B.A.'s Canon 20, which has rarely if ever been enforced since it was written in 1908 to prevent lawyers from publicly discussing pending cases. Unhappily for Medina's hopes, Canon 20 may be a frail reed: all efforts to reform it over the past decade have failed. Reform seems more likely by the imposition of court rules, even though Medina called it "unwise...
...across the nation. During the past few summers, when many Faculty members retreated to the cool breezes of northern New England, Monro went south to Miles College. One of the most active members of the American Council of Education, he has been a strong supporter of civil rights, draft reform, and educational innovation...